Kurds Ascending

Noted authority on Kurdish affairs and Professor of Political Science, Tennessee Tech University

Time: February 3, 2009

Sponsors: Rollins College in a partnership with the International Affairs Program of the Hamilton Holt School, International Relations Program/Political Science Department, UCF Global Perspectives Office, UCF Kurdish Political Studies Initiative and the Global Connections Foundation.

Invited speakers – Mike Chinoy, former CNN Correspondent and author of Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis; Beatrice Fernando, abolitionist and author of In Contempt of Fate; James M. Ludes, Executive Director, American Security Project and former Editor-in-Chief, National Security Studies Quarterly; Ambassador Myles Frechette, Senior Associate, Americas Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and former President, Council of the Americas; Douglas Inkley, Senior Scientist, National Wildlife Federation; Sean Snaith, Director, Institute for Economic Competitiveness, University of Central Florida. A feature of the 2008-2009 university-wide themes of “The Age of India,” “The Environment and Climate Change,” and “Conflict and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East.”